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Definition: The Code of Hammurabi is an ancient set of 282 laws which has been dated by scholars to some time between 2100 and 1800 BCE, making it one of the oldest sets of official legal codes which has survived. It was supposedly given to King Hammurabi (1792-1750 BCE), king of the first dynasty of the Babylonian Empire, by Shamash, the Babylonian god of justice. There is, however, some evidence that it was based upon an even older code of laws.
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